Re: Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

From: "C.Beamer" <cbeamer interlynx net>

To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:39:37 -0400

Ben Steeves wrote:
>OK, so now you have a clean system without mplayer. Add the livna
>repo -- that's probably the easiest place to get mplayer from.
>Install mplayer, mplayer-fonts, mplayer-gui, and mplayerplug-in. You
>can skip the gui or the plugin packages if you don't need them.
>
>Once they're installed, do the following:
>$ cd ~
>$ mkdir .mplayer
>$ cat >> .mplayer/config
>vo=xv
>ao=alsa
>^D
>
>I.e., create the file ~/.mplayer/config with the two lines as above.
>The "^D" is CTRL-D and will quit cat and close the file.
>
>
Okay, I did all this and now at least when I click on the Mplayer icon
that is on my Kmenu under the Sound and Video group, Mplayer opens and I
can click the button to configure it.
Also, Mplayer will play files that have been sent via attachment.
Mplayer would not play these before, so we are moving forward.
>Next is the codecs. Download the codecs archive file from the MPlayer
>website and extract it into /usr/local/lib/codecs. Make symlinks to
>this directory at /usr/lib, /usr/lib/win32, and /usr/local/lib/win32:
>
>$ ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib
>$ ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32
>$ ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32
>
>(the last two probably aren't necessary, but what the heck?)
>
>
>
I did all this and it solved the problem of playing files from withing
mplayer. However, I still have an issue with playing stuff in Firefox.
However, I'm pretty sure that I know what the issue is. The stuff that
I'm trying to play (videos from cnn.com) are in wvm format and if I look
at the available filetypes that are supported by plugins in Firefox,
there is no wvm. Is this perhaps a problem with the mplayerplug-in file
that was installed with yum from the "livna" repository?
Thanks for the assistance on this and special thanks to Ben Steeves.
Regards,
Colleen